Tangible Quotes - Page 4

People often confuse "goal" and "purpose." A goal is something tangible; a purpose is a direction. A goal can be achieved; a purpose is fulfilled in each moment. We can set ad achieve many goals; a purpose remains constant for life.

Dreams are vague and far away. Goals are tangible and achievable.

Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded.

I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody else's and the research and so forth, there's a sense of really have done something worthwhile.

June in New England is like a lover's dream made tangible.

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action.

Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent than economic discrimination because it is more insidious, less tangible. Economic disadvantages involve ascertainable amounts, but the very nature of societal value judgments makes them harder to define, their effects harder to relate.

My disinterest in your bullshit is so tangible you could make bricks out of it

I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that.

Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner's time. Although some taxation is necessary, all taxation diminishes freedom.

With Hitler it was all floating, without roots, intangible and mediumistic.

When you're in office, there are tangible moments when you can see tangible successes.

I wanted something that was really well-made but also still hitting a price point that's tangible and logical for average people - that's who I want to cater to.

Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.

There are intangible qualities of companies that you pour your heart into that are impossible to purchase. And it’s really special when you create a company that provides that. Nothing tops the feeling of being a part of that.

Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.

I always have issues. I'm a New Yorker. I always have issues with trust - you adopt it from being a New Yorker. I think trust is something that comes from the gut. I don't think it's anything specific. I don't think it's anything tangible.

I've spent thousands of hours under water. And even in the deepest dive I have ever made, 2.5 miles (about 4 kilometers) down, I saw trash and other tangible evidence of our presence.

Anytime you start getting a real tangible relationship with something that's been blown up to a legendary status, you just realize that every part of it is just people getting ahead.

The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible - the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.

We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.

Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself.

I have been taking some classes in woodworking. It's really helpful just looking at a problem, and having a very tangible way in constructing it.

... A power of obtaining veracity in the representation of material and tangible things, which, within certain limits and conditions, is unimpeachable, has now been placed in the hands of all men, almost without labour. (1853)